Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Writing that would later be incorporated into the Hebrew Bible names Sheol as the place of the dead.

Using his excellent knowledge of Greek, which was then rare in the West, to his advantage, he studied the Hebrew Bible and Greek authors like Philo, Origen, Athanasius, and Basil of Caesarea, with whom he was also exchanging letters.

Ahab (; ; ) was king of Israel and the son and successor of Omri according to the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew Bible says that dogs licked his blood, according to the prophecy of Elijah.

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The Book of Amos is a prophetic book of the Hebrew Bible, one of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

The Bible translation is a treatment of the Hebrew word olam and the Greek word aion.

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The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible ; abaddon means destruction or " place of destruction ", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol.

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Abiathar ( אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the father is pre-eminent or father of plenty ), in the Hebrew Bible, son of Ahimelech or Ahijah, High Priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli ( 1 Sam.

Samuel then commands that the Amalekite king ( who, like all other Amalekite kings in the Hebrew Bible, is named Agag ) should be brought forth.

The following verses, commonly referred to by the first word of the verse immediately following the Shema as the V ' ahavta, or in Classical Hebrew W ' ahav ' ta meaning " And you shall love ...", contain the commands to love God ( the Talmud emphasizes that you will, at some point, whether you choose to or not therefore " shall " future tense, love God ), with all one's heart, soul, and might ; then the verse goes on to remind you to remember all commandments and " teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit down and when you walk, when you lie down and when you rise " ( Deut 6: 7 ); to recite the words of God when retiring or rising ; to bind those words " on thy arm and thy head " ( classically Jewish oral tradition interprets as tefillin ), and to inscribe them on the door-posts of your house and on your gates ( referring to mezuzah ).

Other words are also used in Hebrew for commands and statutes, for example the Ten Commandments ( עשרת הדיברות ) are the " Ten Words ".

The Hebrew Bible possibly mentions cannabis in Exodus 30: 23 where God commands Moses to make a holy oil of myrrh, cinnamon, qěnēh bośem and cassia to anoint the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle ( and thus God's Temple in Jerusalem ).

* The Hebrew Bible commands that " The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar ; it shall never go out ", ( Leviticus 6: 13, KJV ), regarding the altar of Burnt Offering in the Tabernacle, and later the altars in Solomon's Temple and the Second Temple ( the latter sacked by Rome in AD 70 ).

Tekhelet ( תכלת ) is color dye which the Hebrew Bible commands the Jews to use for one, two, or four of the eight half-strings hanging down.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

The Old Testament is called by the Jews the Tanakh, an acronym formed by combining the initials of the three sections by which the Jews divide the text: the Torah, or Law ( the Pentateuch ), the Nevi ' im, or Prophets, and the Ketuvim, or Writings or Hagiographa ( with vowels added, as Hebrew is written with a consonantal script, TaNaKh ).

In the original Hebrew Bible ( the Bible used by Jews ) First and Second Kings were a single book, as were First and Second Samuel.

In the second century Christianity was criticized by the Jews on a various grounds, e. g. that the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible could not have been fulfilled by Jesus, given that he did not have a successful life.

While the Gregorian calendar is widely used in Israel's business and day-to-day affairs, the Hebrew calendar, used by Jews worldwide for religious and cultural affairs, also influences civil matters in Israel ( such as national holidays ) and can be used there for business dealings ( such as for the dating of checks ).

Although some found initial refuge in Italy ( especially Venice ), most resettled in the Ottoman Empire, where Spanish speaking Jews established in Istanbul a rich sub-culture with a flourishing Hebrew and Ladino printing industry.

Sephardi Hebrew is the traditional pronunciation of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews and Sephardi Jews in the countries of the former Ottoman Empire.

Mizrahi ( Oriental ) Hebrew is actually a collection of dialects spoken liturgically by Jews in various parts of the Arab and Islamic world.

The Hebrew Bible describes constant warfare between the Jews and other tribes, including the Philistines, whose capital was Gaza.

According to the Hebrew Bible, he destroyed Solomon's Temple and exiled the Jews to Babylon.

** Sephardi Hebrew pronunciation used by Jews of Spain and Portugal

** Mizrahi Hebrew used by Jews of the Middle East and North Africa

** Yemenite Hebrew pronunciation ( Temani Hebrew ) used by Jews of Yemen

** Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation used by Jews of Germany

** Yiddish language – a High-German language with Hebrew and Slavic influence, used by Ashkenazi Jews

** Ladino language – a Spanish language with Hebrew and Aramaic influence, used by Sephardi Jews

Halakha () ( Sephardic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-la-chAH )— also transliterated Halocho ( Ashkenazic Hebrew pronunciation ) ( ha-LUH-chuh ), or Halacha — is the collective body of religious laws for Jews, including biblical law ( the 613 mitzvot ) and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions.

A monotheistic religion originating in the Hebrew Bible ( also known as the Tanakh ) and explored in later texts such as the Talmud, Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship God established with the Children of Israel.

A kippah ( Hebrew: כ ִּ פ ָּ ה, plural kippot ; Yiddish: יא ַ רמלקע, yarmulke ) is a slightly rounded brimless skullcap worn by many Jews while praying, eating, reciting blessings, or studying Jewish religious texts, and at all times by some Jewish men.

Purim ( Hebrew: Pûrîm " lots ") is a joyous Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Persian Jews from the plot of the evil Haman, who sought to exterminate them, as recorded in the biblical Book of Esther.